All the hysterical reaction suggesting that the child perpetrators of this crime were somehow innately evil and far worse than adults who do similar things far more frequently, left me fuming. As far as I recall, at least one of the boys involved had an abusive father. My view is hat it is most likely that they were behaving no differently to the way in which dogs which get kicked about also tend to behave. Tragic circumstances and consequences. But the fact that Bulger was murdered by children in no way makes his or his family's suffering, or public approbation of such acts, any greater than that of the far greater number of children who are tortured, raped and murdered by adults.